You know your from nottingham when....


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When you use primark as a cut through..

You remember the xylophone man & speak to sam the guitar man on a night out..

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"AY - UPP MI DUCK" I met a chap in Nottingham who had come to see the sights; he'd travelled from Blackpool, where he'd visited the lights. "He said " I've been to Nottingham castle though i

Peculiar to Nottingham? Maybe so. My folk's house had 'the twitchell' next to it which was a short walkway from Redhill through to a housing estate leading to Arnold. It was only characterised by the

Stu..................dunt yuh mean sat'deh!! & it's difficult for a nottingham lad to say 'you couldn't' , in the nott'm dialect, some people are easily offended!! Try it in yuh best notts natter

When I came to live in America I spoke English,you know "ayup meodeduck" normal Nottingham English.I got so pi$$ed off with Americans saying" I'm sorry would you say that again." With the help of my 'old Gert' I now sound my H's etc,in return I taught her the words and meaning of bullocks and hanker,she uses these two words like a native of Nottingham.I get a real kick when her fellow country say,"I'm sorry would you say that again.

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Stu..................dunt yuh mean sat'deh!!

& it's difficult for a nottingham lad to say 'you couldn't' , in the nott'm dialect, some people are easily offended!! Try it in yuh best notts natter.......................

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Here's a Notts lad who asked in a Florida hotel "Do you have a Restaurant"

and was directed to the gents bogs.

I wonder where they would have sent me if I asked f "the Bogs"

The everglades perhaps :)

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if i said im 'going dahn tahn', that means im going into Hucknall. if i want to say we're going into nottingham, we say we're going dahn notts.

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All the Nottingham lingo is more or less covered elsewhere on here.

So please, and no offence intended, let's keep it to the new topic

Keep the "You know you're from Nott'm" stuff coming, as it's a right giggle.

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...you know what 'Goose Fair weather' is.

...you understand that in football parlance 'Notts' means Notts County and that it's always Nottingham Forest.

...you know exactly who Tug Wilson was - and where to find him.

...you can find your way to The Talbot.

...you've been past Rock Cemetery many a time.

...you'd like to bathe in mushy peas.

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